{"id":796170,"date":"2026-07-31T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796170\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:30:09","slug":"dcs-booster-gold-series-not-moving-forward-at-hbo-creator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796170\/","title":{"rendered":"DC’s ‘Booster Gold’ Series Not Moving Forward at HBO, Creator Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHBO<\/a> is not boosting Booster Gold to a series order anytime soon. <\/p>\n

\n\tWriter David Jenkins (Our Flag Means Death) posted Friday that his version of the DC Comics adaptation is not moving forward at HBO. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy Booster Gold won\u2019t be moving forward,\u201d Jenkins wrote on Threads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tJenkins added, \u201cCan\u2019t improve on Mahershala\u2019s lovely statement so I\u2019ll just apply it here as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe writer then re-posted Mahershala Ali\u2019s viral comments calling out Marvel Studios<\/a> for his Blade reboot not moving forward. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor whatever reason, that project is not for me,\u201d Ali had said. \u201cIf they wanted to do it, we would\u2019ve done it. So I have to move on, and I have moved on. Again, you had me under contract, they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would\u2019ve done the movie. I feel ready to move on from the Blade questions. Those questions are for them. They didn\u2019t want to do it, so they should answer that question.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA source close to the studio says that Booster Gold will remain a project in development. <\/p>\n

\n\tBooster Gold was first announced in development in 2023. Jenkins was attached to write the pilot last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the comics, the Booster Gold character\u2019s real name is Michael Jon \u201cBooster\u201d Carter, who starts off as a football-playing college student from Gotham City. Booster is expelled for gambling and becomes a superhero but continues to annoy others with his obsession for fame and wealth. The character is also a member of the Justice League.<\/p>\n

\n\tDC Studios co-chief Peter Safran had previously said the series version would be \u201ca loser from the future who uses his basic future technology to come back to today to pretend to be a superhero,\u201d while co-chief James Gunn called the project a story about \u201ca superhero\u2019s imposter syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHBO had no immediate comment. Previously, DC\u2019s The Penguin series impressed in the ratings and racked up awards honors awards. Next up is Lanterns, coming Aug. 16, which impressed the crowds at Comic-Con earlier this month with a new trailer and several clips. There have also been two seasons of Peacemaker, though Gunn has suggested he does not plan to make a third season. There\u2019s also a second season coming for the animated series Creature Commandos. <\/p>\n

\n\tOther DC projects in development at HBO include Paradise Lost \u2014 a Wonder Woman prequel set on Themyscira, which Gunn said in April is still in the works. Also, Waller, starring Viola Davis, was previously announced in development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO is not boosting Booster Gold to a series order anytime soon. Writer David Jenkins (Our Flag Means…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[337910,88,1035],"class_list":["post-796170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dc-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}